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The fieldwork for the first phase of census 2021 will be carried out during 2021-22 even though timelines are yet to be finalised, the government told the panel, as per the report.
Look into infrastructural or procedural constraints, it tells Labour Ministry The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour has raised concerns over the Labour and Employment Ministry missing physical targets for schemes and asked the Ministry to look into why it was unable to use funds allocated to it, particularly during the pandemic, in an optimal way. In its report on the demand for grants for 2021-2022 that was presented in Parliament on Tuesday, the panel said: “The Committee also desires that the Ministry seriously look into the infrastructural or procedural constraints impeding op...
What we know about National Cyber Coordination Centre from IT Committee report March 15, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic affected the implementation of the union government’s cybersecurity project, the National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC), leading the government to revise down funds required by half in financial year 2020-21. For FY2020-21, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) revised down funds from Rs 170 crore (Budget Estimate) to Rs 80 crore (Revised Estimate) under the head Cyber Security Projects (NCCC & Others). Note that from the budget documents, it appea...
The population enumeration was supposed to be carried out from February 9 to 28, 2021 with a revision round from March 1 to 5, 2021. This crucial part of the census was also could not be carried due to the pandemic.
NEW DELHI: The Parliamentary standing committee on IT, headed by Shashi Tharoor, has told the ministry of information and broadcasting that though it agrees that the new digital media rules under the IT Act, 2000 will bring an institutional mechanism for level playing field for all media categories, there is need for some further initiatives. The panel said “updation of mandate” and framing rules for OTT and online content “should have been concurrent with the emergence and convergence of technology”, meaning to say that the government is catching up. The gentle rap on the ministry...